The weird week where every bike I touched had a seized seatpost

Last Tuesday I pulled in a Trek hybrid where the seatpost was so stuck I had to use a pipe wrench and a torch, then Wednesday a carbon frame rolled in with the same problem but I was too scared to heat it. Thursday I had three seatposts in a row all frozen solid, and by Friday I was dreaming about penetrating oil. Has anyone else gone through a weird stretch like that where one problem just kept showing up over and over?

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clairepark3d ago

My buddy runs his own shop and said last fall he had five bikes come in with stripped pedal threads in one week. He swore the universe was just messing with him at that point.

jade_grant953d ago

Was it really that bad or did the customers just let things sit out in the rain too long? I kind of agree with @clairepark that stuff like this feels like cosmic bad luck but its usually just bad maintenance catching up.